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Vitol Group and Trafigura Group -- both barred from new oil-trading business with Mexico’s state producer for alleged corruption -- will be subject to the ban until at least the end of 2024 while the government reviews the conduct of other commodity traders, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said. View the full article
BP Plc and Russia’s Lukoil PJSC want to sell down their assets in Iraq, according to the country’s oil minister. View the full article
GATE Energy has been selected by Shell Offshore as the provider for facility commissioning of the Whale development. Scope includes commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution, and offshore commissioning / ready-for-startup services. View the full article
Valero Energy Corp.’s trading division was the largest buyer of crude oil in the Biden administration’s second sale of emergency stocks that were part of the White House’s efforts to combat surging energy prices after Russia invaded Ukraine. View the full article
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon asked the UK government to reassess oil and gas fields that have been licensed but not yet developed, such as the Cambo development west of Scotland’s Shetland Islands. Green groups say that's not enough. View the full article
The Texas oil refinery that Pemex is buying has racked up a rare net loss of about $360 million this year, adding to the challenges Mexico faces in seeking energy independence. View the full article
Highwood Equipment Technologies Inc. is transporting two of the world’s most advanced automated well service rigs to the Sultanate of Oman. View the full article
Oil held gains near the highest since 2018 amid a global energy crunch that’s set to increase demand for crude, while stockpiles are falling from the U.S. to China. View the full article
Investors placed more than $34 billion of orders for Abu Dhabi-based ADNOC Drilling Company PJSC’s $1.1 billion initial public offering, further underscoring the global clamor for equity deals. View the full article
At an open meeting of the Railroad Commission of Texas, Commissioner Wayne Christian was unanimously elected Chairman for a second time. View the full article
Some of the worst fire conditions in a decade are going to sweep across Texas and the southern Great Plains, threatening key shale-oil fields, slaughterhouses and farms. View the full article
OPEC+ agreed to maintain its schedule of gradual monthly oil-production increases, sending crude prices sharply higher. View the full article
A coastal California county’s attempt to curb new oil and gas development suffered another blow when an appeals court upheld a ruling striking down a ban on new wells and hydraulic fracturing. View the full article
Halliburton Company announced a new wireline logging service that helps operators acquire more accurate well data to better evaluate production potential called StrataXaminer. View the full article
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was ‘unlikely’ the U.S. and Iran would reach a new nuclear deal anytime soon, adding to Western officials’ downbeat assessment over the prospects for reviving an accord that President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018. View the full article
(WO) — One of the more interesting and thoughtful panel sessions last week at Schlumberger’s Digital Forum in Luzern, Switzerland, was focused on the Energy Transition. The discussion of what should be done and how to do it, along with who should lead the way, was far-ranging. View the full article
Vard Electro has been awarded a contract for an innovative hybrid battery power system with Atlantic Towing to be integrated on their vessel Atlantic Shrike. Atlantic Towing is the first company to implement this multiple mode application of battery technologies on a single vessel in the Canadian offshore oil and gas industry. View the full article
How the UK government finds itself mounting a tax raid on the oil and gas industry, while simultaneously breaking a promise not to offer fossil fuel producers incentives to drill more, shows how the invasion of Ukraine has turned the world of energy on its head. View the full article
Solstad Offshore, DeepOcean Group and Østensjø Group have joined forces to fast-track the adoption of remotely managed services to drive down operating costs and emissions for the marine and offshore industries. View the full article
While Ebrahim Raisi’s presidential win isn’t expected to derail efforts to return the U.S. to the accord, the change in administration in Tehran has complicated diplomacy. View the full article
The ChemE and Process Engineering Tradeshow will be the leading exhibition and technical event for chemical engineers in North America. View the full article
Tellurian Inc. withdrew a $1 billion high-yield bond sale, leaving the future of its U.S. natural gas export project in limbo. The stock plunged more than 24%. View the full article
Oil prices in New York gained for a second session, building on the biggest one-day gain in nine months, amid glimmers of optimism among bulls that the delta coronavirus variant’s hit to demand may be passing. View the full article
In the debate over why U.S. oil producers haven’t added additional supply, the boss of ConocoPhillips lays the blame squarely with the government. View the full article
Overall, Q2 was a challenging quarter for negotiating deals as volatility roiled both commodity and equity markets. Despite that, about $12 billion was transacted in upstream M&A. View the full article
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I started this blog to express what I sense about the highs and lows of the oil realm, while cautiously analysing historical data, taking into account the geo-political development at the time of recording them.
I got into this field, having been a passive observer of fluctuations of crude oil prices and their global consequences for years.
Then, when on the day of Great Oil Crash in April, 2020, I made a decision to make my own blog, with the motto, ‘analysing data that really matters’.
Having come from an academic background in mathematics and physics, I analyse data using my own tools, created with JavaScript and Python, taking my decision on board while making decisions.